Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Healthy Snack Ideas



Drinks
Milk
Chocolate milk
Cocoa
Carnation Instant Breakfast



Mini Meals
Homemade soups
Homemade mac-n-cheese
Many casseroles
Spaghetti and other pasta dishes
Stir fry with brown rice
Flatten Pillsbury rolls and put them in the oven topped with sauce and shredded cheese
Mini bagels with a little marinara sauce and sprinkled with cheese, then baked until bubbly.
Hot dogs
Baked Potatoes-margarine, salsa, shredded cheese, chopped onion, black olives, leftover chili
Pepperoni, Cheese & Crackers
Pigs in a Blanket with Mustard
Egg & Sausage Burritos
French Fries with Cheese Sauce
Cheese Quesadillas
Garlic Bread Sticks with Spaghetti Sauce or Cheese Sauce
Tortilla Dogs- Roll Cheese & Beef Hotdogs into a Tortilla. Warm in Microwave and Serve with Ketchup or Salsa
Ham & Cheese Tortilla Rollups
Mac & Cheese with Sliced Hotdogs
Corn Chips & Chili Cheese Dip- Velveeta and a half a can of chili into a microwave safe bowl and melt in the microwave for about 2 minutes.
Meat & Cheese Kabobs
Triscuit or Ritz Pizzas: Triscuit or Ritz crackers with pizza sauce, cheese and pepperoni or other desired ingredients and bake for 5-7 minutes on 350 degrees.
English Muffin Pizzas
Pita Pockets
Egg, Tuna salmon, or Chicken Salad on Crackers
Tortillas spread with a little refried beans and sprinkled with cheese, then heated
Tortilla chips with whole pinto beans
Leftover pizza
Homemade “lunchables” - stack crackers, cheese slices, and meat slices to assemble with apple slices and cream cheese dip.

Sandwiches
peanut butter and honey
PB and jelly
PB and banana
PB and pickle
Leftover chicken or turkey with cheese
Egg salad, chicken salad, or tuna salad, salmon salad
Cream cheese and jelly
PB and cream cheese
cream cheese with strawberry slices and raw honey
BLT
Bean spreads
tortilla wraps

Salads
Tossed Salad
Chef Salad
Potato salad

Vegetables
cherry tomatoes, carrots, pea pods, cucumbers, cauliflower , broccoli, celery, green beans, peppers, frozen peas

Vegetables& Dip Combinations
Mix regular yogurt (or vanilla-flavored yogurt) with honey to taste as a great dunking sauce for fruit chunks or use the same as dressing over fruit salad
Carrots dipped into sugar
Carrots with salt
Sliced carrots, celery, peppers and yellow crookneck squash dipped in ranch dressing
Celery with cheese or peanut butter
Veggies with ranch dressing
Celery sticks, spread with peanut butter
Carrots with peanut butter
Celery & Cream cheese
Celery with Cream Cheese & Raisins
Broccoli with Ranch Dressing
Cucumber & Dill Dip
Mix some ricotta cheese with some OJ concentrate to flavor, add some raisins, and "stuff" in celery sticks or on top of graham crackers.
Apple Slices & Carrots
Dill Pickles

Fruit
Bananas, oranges, apples, pears, plums, melon, grapes, cherries, strawberries, peaches, nectarines.
Fruit Kabobs
Frozen grapes
Fruit Salad

Fruit & Dip Combinations
Mix a package of vanilla pudding mix into a big tub of plain yogurt, and let it sit for a while to set up.
Sliced apples sprinkled with cinnamon sugar
Fresh fruit dipped in yogurt
Strawberries and Whipped Cream
Frozen blueberries with cheesecake-flavored yogurt
Apples and peanut butter
Fruit with Vanilla Yogurt as a Dip

Apple Slices & Caramel Dip
Apple Sauce & Teddy Grahams
Fresh Fruit mixed with Whipped Cream
Bananas sliced in half and spread with Peanut Butter

Fruit/ Bread Combinations
Fruit & Homemade Bread
Mini Pancakes with fruit
English Muffins with Bananas
Crackers & Strawberries
Animal Crackers & Banana
Cornbread & Bananas
Applesauce & Cheese Corn Muffins
Animal Crackers & Oranges

Other Fruit Combinations
Banana Pops- Put an banana on a craft stick Spread with Peanut Butter and roll in Crisp
Applesauce with cinnamon
Strawberry fruit leather
Apples with Cheese on top
Apple Slices sprinkled with Jell-O Powder

Dried fruit
apples, raisins or bananas
Dried Fruit & Mini Rice Cakes
Raisins & Pretzels


Dairy

Cheese/Bread Combinations
String Cheese & saltines
Tortillas with cream cheese
Cheese and whole grain crackers
Saltine Crackers with Cheddar Cheese
Bagel Chips & Cheese Cubes
Saltines/Ritz/Triscuits with Cheese melted on top
Goldfish Crackers & String Cheese
Crackers and cheese
Cottage cheese with various mix-ins
Mini bagels with flavored cream cheese

Puddings
Pudding cups
Vanilla Wafers & Pudding
Bread Pudding
Animal Crackers & Pudding

Yogurt
Yogurt Parfaits
Yogurt with fruit or wheat germ added
Yogurt & Vanilla Wafers
Yogurt with cinnamon-applesauce stirred in
Yogurt with frozen fruit and/or granola in it

Hard-boiled eggs
Hard-boiled egg with salt and pepper
Hard-boiled egg sliced and served with salt and pepper on Triscuits or Wheat Thins

Breads/ Grains
Homemade granola bars
Home-baked cookies
Homemade Mini Muffins/muffins/quick breads- - Applesauce, Zucchini, Banana, Pumpkin, or Blueberry
Popcorn
Pretzels
Breadsticks
Bagels
Toasted Cinnamon Raisin Bread
Graham Crackers
Herbed Cheese Twists
Popcorn balls
Baked Cinnamon Sugar Tortillas
Cereal with milk
Hot cereal-Oatmeal or Cream of Wheat add dried fruits or nuts
Rice Cereal
Breakfast cereal mix –leftover cereal mixed with dried fruit
Homemade Rice Krispie Treats
Chex Mix
Popcorn mixed with Cereal
Mix-ups- Leftover Cereal, Crackers & Dried Fruit
Fruit & Rice Crispy Treats
Fruit Loops & Pretzels

Breads/ Grains Combinations
Ritz Sticks & Peanut Butter
Pretzels with Nutella
Pretzels & Peanut butter
Peanut Butter & Cheese Crackers
Crackers spread with Peanut Butter and jelly or jam
Peanut Butter and Honey on a Pancake and rolled up
Peanut Butter on Saltines
Peanut Butter Toast
Peanut Butter & Jelly Tortilla Rollups
Bread or Toast spread with jelly, jam, peanut butter, spiced honey or honey butter
Toast with sour cream and brown sugar
Butter and sugar on bread
Peanut butter and jelly on bread, toast, tortillas or leftover waffles or pancakes
Graham crackers with cream cheese and a dab of strawberry jam "Think 'cheesecake'"
Tortillas spread with peanut butter, rolled around a whole banana and then sliced
Nutella and Banana Slices on a dinner roll
String Cheese, Salami, & Saltine Crackers
Soft Pretzels with Cheese
Tortilla Spread with Peanut Butter and Sliced Bananas
Biscuits & Jam
Marshmallows & Prezels

Tortilla Chips with Salsa or Cheese dip
Graham Crackers with Cream Cheese topped with Sliced Strawberries
Saltine with Peanut Butter topped with Sliced Grapes
Jam Dinner Rolls- before baking the rolls, push an impression of your thumb into the rolls and fill with jam then bake as usual.

Frozen Treats
Creamy Orange Shake
Milk Shake
Fruit Shakes
Homemade Smoothies
Yogurt Popsicles
Homemade Popsicles
Juice Pops
Graham Cracker Ice Cream Sandwiches
Banana Milkshake
Blueberry Supreme- Place frozen Blueberries in a bowl and sprinkle sugar on top. Add a small amount of milk. The milk will freeze to the blueberries
Yogurt Sundaes- Freeze Vanilla Yogurt and top with Fruit & Granola

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1 comment:

  1. WOW, thanks somuch for putting this list together!!! I have really been struggling with losing weight, and really needed some inspiration:) I weigh about 165lbs and my idea weight for my size is around 125lbs. How are you winning your battle with weight? You look great! I plann to join curves sometime soon and I ride a bike and walk when I can (hopefully will buy a bie trailer for the kiddos soon) I really have a problem in portion control and need to keep my calories in check. I'd like to hear how you manage. Thanks for any pointers you can give me
    Becky

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